Eisenhower Develops Pneumonia During Recovery
President Eisenhower, 78, hospitalized since last April after a heart attack and recent abdominal surgery, has developed pneumonia in the right lung base. Army doctors say he is generally weaker but cooperative, with vital signs stable and his postoperative course following the expected path. Mamie Eisenhower and son John are at the hospital. John left briefly as Mamie remains in a hospital suite next to him.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Eisenhower
California
Pentagon
Mamie
John
Gettysburg
Phoenixville
Nixon seeks French help for Western purpose and peace
In Paris Nixon meets Charles de Gaulle for 2 hours 10 minutes in a cordial session. He urges joint efforts to build a just lasting peace and a new Western purpose while De Gaulle emphasizes friendship and upcoming exchanges. The visit begins with wreath ceremony and a salute on the Champs Elysees.
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Paris
Nixon
Charles de Gaulle
Elysee Palace
de Gaulle
United States
City of Light
Communist Party
France
U.S
Orly Airport
Broad Champs Elysees
Elysees Palace
U. S
Rome
Europe
America
New Deluges Add To Woes In California
California faces heavy rain and potential levee failure in Ventura County threatening up to 20 000 more residents with evacuation plans. Nationwide storms bring 15 foot drifts in the northeast and record snow in New England leaving risk of further flooding and high damage estimates.
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California
Ventura County
New England
Maine
Boston
Gloucester
Mass
Geological Survey
Goldwater Pushes Amendment to Ease Presidential Voting
Sen Barry Goldwater urged a constitutional change to ease residency and absentee voting rules in presidential elections. He argued the 1968 vote could have been 15 percent higher if his plan had been in place, allowing residents less than 30 days prior to elections and granting absentee ballots up to seven days before polls open. He noted surveys showing millions were blocked by residence rules or absentee ballot access.
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Washington
Barry Goldwater
Arizona Republican
Senate
Goldwater
Alexandria Rites Held For Judge Walter Hunter
Funeral services were held in Alexandria for District Court Judge Walter Hunter 57 who died after hospitalization since February 2 following a heart attack. Hunter served 18 years on the 9th Judicial District Court.
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Alexandria
Walter Hunter
9Th Judicial District Court
Lethal Earthquake Shakes Iberia and Northwest Africa
A major earthquake struck the Atlantic west of Lisbon causing at least two deaths in Spain and Portugal and 61 injuries in Lisbon. The 7.3 quake, felt across Portugal, Spain, and Morocco, centered in the ocean 80 miles southwest of Lisbon, prompted mass evacuations and widespread damage to structures.
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Portugal
Iberian Peninsula
Africa
Spain
National Earthquake Center
Washington, D.C
Alaska
Atlantic Ocean
Gibraltar
Morocco
Casablanca
Lagos
Sevilla
San Jose Hospital
Algarve
Vilages
Airman Jerrell L. Smith Graduates Air Force Telecomm Course
Airman First Class Jerrell L. Smith son of Mr and Mrs Ellis O Smith 1913 Bailey St West Monroe graduates from the U S Air Force telecommunications specialist course at Keesler AFB Mississippi He is a West Monroe High School graduate and will be assigned to Fuchu AB Japan for duty with the Air Force Communications Service.
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Jerrell L. Smith
Ellis O. Smith
Bailey St
West Monroe
U. S. Air Force
Keesler Afb
Miss
West Monroe High School
Fuchu AB
Japan
Air Force Communications Service
Local airman completes basic training in Texas
Airman Steward L. Brown son of Mr and Mrs Steward B Brown 401 Shady Oaks Dr West Monroe has completed basic training at Lackland Air Base Texas and is assigned to Sheppard Air Base Texas as a medical services specialist. Brown is a 1962 West Monroe High School graduate who attended Louisiana Tech.
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Steward L. Brown
Steward B Brown
Shady Oaks Dr
West Monroe
Lackland Air Base
Tex
Sheppard Air Base
Texas
Brown
West Monroe High School
Louisiana Tech
Gloucester men ski to supermarkets in heavy snow
Gloucester Massachusetts after two major blizzards buried the North Shore town under 41 inches of snow. Mayor Grace authorized use of private snow removal equipment as streets become passable. Police and firefighters deliver groceries and aid while hospital crews handle injuries and crowding.
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Gloucester
Mass
North Shore
Joseph F. Grace
Leroy Garland
West Berlin to hold presidential election March 5
Mayor Klaus Schuetz announced the West Berlin vote for West Germany’s new president would proceed on March 5 as planned despite East German opposition. East Germans barred Federal Assembly members from surface routes, insisting electors travel by air to reach West Berlin.
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West Berlin
Kohl
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
West Germany
Federal Assembly
Germany
Stocks Register Slight Advance During Session
The U S stock market saw a moderate recovery in mid afternoon trading. The Dow rose to 906 20, up 3 17 led by gains in Glen Alden Brunswick Loews Theatres INA Pacific Petroleum and International Paper with a broad advance across aerospace electronics airlines and drugs.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Goodrich
United States
Glen Alden
Brunswick
Loew's Theatres
INA Corp
Pacific Petroleum and International Paper
Skies Clear After Evening Showers Across Twin Cities
Showers dropped .23 inch of rain in the Twin Cities with hail in parts of Northeast Louisiana during Thursday night storms. Temperatures will run 52 to 60 today and Saturday, with lows 38 to 44. FAA records Monroe Municipal Airport show a high of 68 Thursday and a 45 low this morning. Winds NW to NE 8 to 20 mph shifting to NE 8 to 18 mph by Saturday. Drying conditions expected today through Sunday with 75 percent sunshine and no significant precipitation.
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Twin Cities
Louisiana
FAA
Monroe Municipal
New Orleans Trial Of Shaw Nearing Close
The Clay Shaw conspiracy trial nears a close as a handwriting expert testifies it is highly probable Shaw signed the alias Clay Bertrand in a 1967 New Orleans airport guest register Oswald and Ferrie are referenced by the defense evidence is presented by Elizabeth McCarthy of Boston and District Attorney Jim Garrison conducts the case in Criminal District Court Judge Edward A. Haggerty Jr. plans to charge the jury after closing arguments.
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New Orleans
Clay Shaw
Shaw
Criminal District Court
Edward A. Haggerty Jr
Dist
Atty
Jim Garrison
Elizabeth McCarthy
Boston
Clay Bertrand
Garrison
Bertrand
Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
David W. Ferrie
Dallas
Oswald
Warren Commission
Weather Bureau to close 13 stations by June 30
The Alexandria Louisiana Weather Bureau station will close along with 12 others nationwide as Congress ordered spending cuts by the Environmental Sciences Service Administration. The Vicksburg Mississippi station is also slated for shutdown.
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Alexandria
Laaf
Weather Bureau
Environmental Sciences Service Administration
Commerce Department
Vicksburg, Miss
Today's Chuckle She’s a gossip with rumortism
A lighthearted quip portrays a gossip with a chronic condition labeled rumortism. The joke plays on the idea of spreading rumors as a comic flaw.
South Vietnam Shelled as Da Nang Dock Hit by Rockets
More than 30 South Vietnamese towns and bases came under Viet Cong shelling overnight. Rockets struck Da Nang dock, sinking two landing craft and damaging a third, with explosions aboard ammunition boats. Initial toll: one American killed, 34 wounded, with several missing. Civilians evacuated from around the dock as 100-pound rockets raged. Across the region, heavy fighting persisted near Saigon and in rice paddies, as U S and South Vietnamese forces reported enemy casualties and continued operations to blunt the spring offensive.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
da Nang
Edwin Q. White
1St Infantry Division
U S Trade Drops As Dock Strike Paralyses Ports
January saw exports fall 28 percent to 2.1 billion and imports drop nearly 34 percent to just under 2 billion as the longshoremen's strike shut traffic at Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports. Assistant Secretary Chartener noted exports led imports by 115.6 million but warned the trade balance holds no general significance due to the disruption.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Asst
William H. Chartener
Army Reserves Scaled Back Custodial Duty Amid Budget Squeeze
The Army orders commanders to stop using reservists as janitors citing unit readiness concerns. In a tight funding climate, reserve money is described as adequate but constrained with some units moving to summer trucking to save costs and convoy training noted as justified by commanders.
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Washington
Army
Army Reserve
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